Nation
Steilacoom TribeSteilacoom Tribe
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- Recorded status
- Not on the federal list
- Region
- Washington (Pierce County)
In the record
This nation carries the history of Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington in the treaty record.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
Recognition, as each source states it
Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.
- Not on the federal list, Washington (Pierce County)Steilacoom named as a party to the Treaty of Medicine Creek, 1854. OFA final determination against acknowledgment, 73 FR 14833 (2008), petitioner #11.source
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Carries the treaty history of 1
Sources
- steilacoomtribe.com/historyunclassified
So, while the Steilacoom Tribe signed the Medicine Creek Treaty in 1854, the treaty did not provide them with a separate reservation.
- treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-nisqualli-puyallup-etc-1854-0661reference work
the undersigned chiefs, head-men, and delegates of the Nisqually, Puyallup, Steilacoom, Squawskin, S’Homamish, Stehchass, T’ Peek-sin, Squi-aitl, and Sa-heh-wamish tribes
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